2022-23 Book List
- The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together – Heather McGhee
- When We Cease to Understand the World – Benjamin Labatut
- This Tender Land – William Kent Krueger
- Become America – Eric Liu
- American Nations – Colin Woodard
- Thank You for Arguing – Jay Heinrichs
- History, Disrupted: How Social Media and the World Wide Web Have Changed the Past – Jason Steinhauer
- A Brilliant Solution: Inventing the American Constitution – Carol Berkin
- The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee – David Treuer
- Just Mercy – Bryan Stevenson
- How Civil Wars Start – Barbara F. Walter
2021-22 Book List
- There There – Tommy Orange
- The Upswing: How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again – Robert D. Putnam
- Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents – Isabel Wilkerson
- Call Us What We Carry – Amanda Gorman
- The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution – Eric Foner
- Just Mercy: A True Story of the Fight for Justice – Bryan Stevenson
- Film Intermission: Just Mercy
2020-21 Book List
- One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy – Carol Anderson
- They Called Us Enemy (Graphic Novel) – George Takei
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The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America – Richard Rothstein
- Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants – Robin Wall Kimmerer
2019-20 Book List
- An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States (ReVisioning American History) – Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
- Between the World and Me – Ta-Nehisi Coates
- The Schoolhouse Gate: Public Education, The Supreme Court, and the Battle for the American Mind – Justin Driver
- The Crucible – Arthur Miller
- Film Intermission: Knock Down the House
- Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration – Emily Bazelon
- Fascism: A Warning – Madeleine Albright
2018-19 Book List
- Freedom for the Thought that We Hate: A Biography of the First Amendment, by Anthony Lewis
- Greeks and Romans Bearing Gifts: How the Ancients Inspired the Founding Fathers, by Carl Rishard
- The Woman’s Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote, by Elaine Weiss
- Fault Lines in the Constitution, by Cynthia & Sanford Levinson (with supplemental Drake Law Review Article “How the United States Constitution Contributes to the Democratic Deficit in America” by Sanford Levinson)
- Film Intermission: The Wave
- On Tyranny, by Timothy Snyder
- The Soul of America: the Battle for Our Better Angels, by Jon Meacham
2017-18 Book List
- Plain, Honest Men, by Richard Beeman
- Divided We Stand: The Battle over Women’s Rights, by Marjorie Spruill
- Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream, by Doris Kearns Goodwin
- The Crisis of the Middle Class Constitution, by Ganesh Sitaraman
- Film Intermission: RGB
- Kafka Comes to America, by Steven Wax
2016-17 Book List
- Alexander Hamilton, by Ron Chernow
- Objective Troy: A Terrorist, a President, and the Rise of the Drone, by Scott Shane
- Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, by Doris Kearns Goodwin
- Scorpions: The Battles and Triumphs of FDR’s Great Supreme Court Justices, by Noah Feldman
- Film Intermission: 13th
- Just Mercy: Story of Justice and Redemption, by Bryan Stevenson
2015-16 Book List
- Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis, by Robert Putnam
- Shay’s Rebellion: The American Revolution’s Final Battle, by Leonard Richards
- Democracy Reborn: the 14th Amendment and the Fight for Equal Rights, by Garrett Epps
- The Law of the Land: A grand Tour of our Constitutional Republic, by Akhil Reed Amar
- The Great Dissent: How Oliver Wendell Holmes Changed his Mind, by Thomas Healy
- Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America, by Gilbert King
2014-15 Book List
- Truman, by David McCullough
- Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin, by Jill Lepore
- Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution, by Woody Holton
- Six Amendments: How and Why We should Change the Constitution, by John Paul Stevens
- So Help Me God: The Founding Fathers and the First Great Battle over Church and State, by Forrest Church
- Deportation Nation: Outsiders in American History, by Daniel Kanstroom
2013-14 Book List
- The Idea of America: Reflections on the Birth of the United States, by Gordon Wood
- Thomas Jefferson: the Art of Power, by Jon Meacham
- Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Life Among the Lowly, by Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Bending toward Justice: The Voting Rights Act and the Transformation of American Democracy, by Gary May
- Peyote vs. the State: Religious Freedom on Trial, by Garrett Epps
- My Beloved World, by Sonia Sotomayor
2012-13 Book List
- His Excellency: George Washington, by Joseph Ellis
- Decision in Philadelphia: The Constitutional Convention of 1787, by Christopher Collier
- The Impending Crisis: America Before the Civil War, by David Potter
- Our Patchwork Nation, by Dante Chinni
- Lincoln’s Constitution, by Daniel Farber
- A More Perfect Constitution, by Larry Sabato